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J. C. SCHLELGHER.

CORN PLANTER.

No. 854,989. Patentedm. 28, 1888.

f UNITED i STATES PATENTV OFFICE.

JOSEPH C. SCHLEIHER, OF SUN PRAIRIE, VISGONSIN, ASSIGNOR ON E- HALF TOBERNARD A. OKEEFE, OF SAME PLAGE.

CORN-PLANTES.

SPECIFATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,939, dated December28l 1886.

Application tiled April 26, 1886. Serial No. 200,231. [No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnPH C. ScHLEIcHnR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Sun Prairie, in the county of Dane and StateofWisconsin, have invented a new and useful Corn-Planter, of which thefollowing is a speciication.

My invention relates-to improvements in corn-planters; and the object ofmy improvement is to construct a corn-planter to be worked byhorse-powenin such a manner that it will be a perfect self-marker of therows both ways and will automatically plant such seed in true check-rowscorresponding with such markings.0 I attain this object' by themechanism illustrated in 'the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure ilis a side view with part of frame removed. Fig. 2 isa front View, andFig. 3 is a top view.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

I construct the wheel A, which, with attachments, is a marker ofthedistance vof the hills in rows, and, in the particulars hereinaftermentioned, is also a drive-wheel of the dropping machinery. The wheel Ahas its axle journaled in a frame, B, which is jointed centrally to therear ofthe cross-frame C, placed upon the running gear of any ordinaryplanter. Into the rims of such wheel, at distances equal and proper forhills, I insert the three cross-blocks a, widening the trackingsurfaceat those points as a guide to the 'eye of the driver or operator insetting the wheel in the following rows.

To operate the dropper, I fasten to t-he left side of the wheel A thethree cams b, faced forward, each extending from near the center towardthe circumference at equal distances from eachother. Each cam as thewheel revolves engages in turn with and drives upward and forward therear end of the crank c, the middle bend of which isjournaled laterallythrough the frame B, the forward end connecting by means of the rod dwith the rear of the crank e, which is pivoted to thetop of thecross-frame C, the front arm of which crank e is connected by the rodfwith the upward loop, g, of the shaft D, which is pivoted to the frontedge of the cross-frame C. rIhe second upward loop, h, of the shaft Disattached to the slide E, working in the bottom of the hopper G, placedtoits rear. The slide E has near its rear end the two mortises m, eachof which carries the seed for a hill. rlhe slide is thus thrown backthrough a suitable door in the rear side ofthefhopper, and the charge ofseed is dropped from each mortise into one of the two spouts n,extending outward and downward on each side and'terminating by adownward vertical bend near the ground, where it is closed by a lid, o,opening to the front, `attached to each of which lids is a lever, p,formed by a vertical downward bend of the end of the shaft D, so thatthe lid will be opened thereby for the final dropping of the seed. Theslide E and all parts ofthe shaft D are thrown back to normal positionby the spiral springs 7c, placed on the frame C and bearing against therear side ofthe loop L. l

The frame may carry two teeth, making furrows in advance of seed, andalso a marker for the next drive across the field. The supporting-wheelsof the ,planter may pass over the hills, covering the seed. Foradjusting the wheel A, its frame Bis raised by the bent lever S,passingtfherefrom,pivotedto the cross-frame O, and having the front arm rise tothe right of driver. Attached to the slide E, and lying below the bottomof the hopper G,I have a plate to Vreceive the seed when it is firstdropped, whence it is thrown by edge of hopper into the spouts when theslide is thrown forward to place, a plate being attached to slide E.

I am aware that prior to my invention one of the two supporting-wheelsof planters has carried cams and hill-markers resembling mine. I do not,therefore, claim such wheel, broadly; but I am notaware thatathirdwhcel, constructed like mine and `attached to the planter, workingindependently of and tracking and marking away from t-he other wheels,has been used.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination, in a corn-planter, of the third wheel, A, having thecrossblocks c and the cams b, with the two cranks c e, the two rods df,the loops g h, the levers p, and the slide E, all substantially as setforth.

JOSEPH C. SOHLEICHER..

W'itnesses:

C. T. WAKELEY, FRANK E. PARKINsoN.

